{"id":11953,"date":"2016-07-21T06:00:56","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T05:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=11953"},"modified":"2016-07-21T06:00:56","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T05:00:56","slug":"thursday-21st-july-2016-getting-the-hang-of-it-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2016\/07\/21\/thursday-21st-july-2016-getting-the-hang-of-it-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 21st July 2016 &#8211; Getting the hang of it&#8230; or not!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_3639-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3639\" class=\"wp-image-11954\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_3639-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_3639-326x245.jpg 326w, https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_3639-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_3639.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_3641-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3641\" class=\"wp-image-11955\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_3641-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_3641.jpg 338w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Wilma\u2019s paddling pools arrived first thing yesterday morning and she got into one of them in the kitchen as soon as our Mistress put it down. However, so far except for drinking from them in the garden that has been the end of it. Our Mistress got her to dip her toe in the water, but it was literally just a toe before Wilma said that was enough excitement for one day. She had a little talk with me later and said that her incident with the sea-water last Saturday has really put her off. I reassured her that this would not be the same and the water wouldn\u2019t be salty. Besides which she\u2019d already tasked it to check that for herself. She asked why I wasn\u2019t going in and I said that I\u2019d think about it. Of course, I\u2019ve already thought and the answer would be NO! Swimming is one thing, I\u2019ve got used to that, but I don\u2019t have to voluntarily get into any other water, no matter how hot it is outside. Our Mistress has said that if it gets any hotter trying to work in the office then she will lead by example and sit in the paddling pool herself. I\u2019m hoping that the camera is to paw when that happens as I really think you\u2019ll want to see it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wilma may well be encouraged to go in today and have a good wash so she\u2019s all nice and clean for the dog show she\u2019s taking part in tomorrow. They are off to their ringcraft class tonight to get some practice. It\u2019s the first time they\u2019ve been for ages so I\u2019m predicting it may not go well! Wilma said she\u2019s only going to keep our Mistress happy and to see her friend Fleur as she misses her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find short stories to read at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alfiedog.com\">www.alfiedog.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alfie\u2019s Diary \u2013 the Book as well as our other books are available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/s\/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&amp;field-keywords=rosemary%20j%20kind\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Wilma\u2019s paddling pools arrived first thing yesterday morning and she got into one of them in the kitchen as soon as our Mistress put it <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2016\/07\/21\/thursday-21st-july-2016-getting-the-hang-of-it-or-not\/\" title=\"Thursday 21st July 2016 &#8211; Getting the hang of it&#8230; or not!\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,110,61],"tags":[109,63,34,60,93],"class_list":["post-11953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","category-showing","category-training","tag-alfie","tag-aristotle","tag-kennel-club","tag-training-2","tag-wilma","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}